NEW DELHI: With a seven-wicket victory against Papua New Guinea on Thursday, Afghanistan demonstrated their increasing reputation as the dark horses of the 2024 T20 World Cup, moving on to the Super Eight stage of the competition and eliminating New Zealand.In the Group C encounter at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad, Fazalhaq Farooqi added…
Pakistan batsman Imam-ul-Haq has thrown his weight behind the under-fire captain Babar Azam as Pakistan stare at an early exit from the T20 World Cup. Pakistan’s consecutive defeats against USA and India in Group A has put their campaign in disarray. The 2009 champions came back to defeat Canada and kept their hopes of reaching…
NEW DELHI: Nigel Farage‘s Reform UK party has surpassed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak‘s Conservative Party in an opinion poll, marking a shift ahead of the July 4 general election. The YouGov poll, conducted for the Times newspaper, shows Reform UK at 19%, up from 17% previously, while the Conservatives remain at 18%. The Labour Party…
One of India’s greatest batsmen Virender Sehwag needs no introduction; but Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan made an impression, possibly sarcastically because of his latest criticism by the former India opener, that he didn’t exactly identify who the journalist mentioned in his question. Bangladesh are all but through to the ‘Super 8s’ stage of the…
New Delhi: Hong Kong-based SAIF Partners on Thursday pared a 5.8 per cent stake in jewellery retailer Senco Gold for Rs 432.72 crore through an open market transaction. SAIF Partners, through its arm SAIF Partners India IV Ltd, sold shares of Kolkata-based Senco Gold on the BSE. According to the bulk deal data available on…
Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal have finally confirmed their relationship and announced their wedding in a wedding invite which has gone viral. The couple can be heard saying in a voice note that they’ve been in a relationship for 7 years now and it’s time to go from rumoured boyfriend, girlfriend to permanent husband and…
Representative Image Kolkata: Dollar Industries Ltd on Thursday announced a major expansion in South India, with plans to open 50 new stores across the region over the next three years. The company, which has a 15-per cent stake in the branded hosiery segment, is aiming at an 11-12 percent growth on a year-on-year basis, officials…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Apulia, Italy on Thursday night to attend the G7 Summit, where India has been invited as an outreach country. According to the ministry of external affairs, PM Modi is scheduled to participate in several bilateral meetings and an outreach session of the summit today.Upon arrival at Brindisi…
JAIPUR: In hard-hitting remarks on the outcome of the Lok sabha polls, RSS leader Indresh Kumar on Thursday slammed the ruling BJP for “arrogance” and the opposition INDIA bloc for being “anti-Ram”. Speaking at the ‘Ramrath Ayodhya Yatra Darshan Poojan Samaroh’ event held in Kanota near Jaipur, Kumar criticized both parties without explicitly naming them.Referring…
USA’s Netravalkar, who also dismissed ‘old mate’ Rohit, says he is still trying to process the attention and adulationNEW YORK: From being a journeyman cricketer in Mumbai to becoming a coder for Oracle to now getting Virat Kohli out for a first-ball duck in a T20 World Cup, it has been a long and winding…
